Most conference activities will take place in Wood Hall on the law school campus, including registration, breakfasts, snacks, and panel sessions. The Friday welcome reception will be downtown at “The Cleaners” at the Ace Hotel. Lunches and the Saturday evening banquet dinner will be held in the Legal Research Center at the law school. Please be advised this schedule is subject to change without notice.
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Registration Opens; Light Lunch & Snacks
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Sharkwater screening (McCarty classrooms 2 and 4)
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 7: Fighting Factory Farms: Alternative Approaches
Peter Brandt, Senior Attorney, Humane Society of the United States
Dan Kinburn, General Counsel, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Charlie Tebbutt, Attorney, Western Environmental Law Center
Room 8: Troubled Waters: Bringing International Attention to the Oceans’ Plight
Janis Searles Jones, Vice President of Legal Affairs, General Counsel, Ocean Conservancy
Kim McCoy, Executive Director, Sea Shepherd
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Room 7: Dogs in Pubs?! Legislative Update
Stephan Otto, Director of Legislative Affairs, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Nancy Perry, Vice President of Government Affairs, Humane Society of the United States
Liz Ross, Federal Policy Advisor, Animal Welfare Institute
Room 8: Cruel Captivity: Animals in Entertainment
Adam Roberts, Senior Vice President, Born Free USA
Suzanne Roy, Program Director, In Defense of Animals
Bruce Wagman, Partner, Schiff Hardin
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Room 7: Sanctuaries & Shelters
Gene Baur, President and Co-Founder, Farm Sanctuary
Wayne Geiger, President, Lighthouse Sanctuary
Russ Mead, General Counsel, Best Friends Animal Society
Room 8: Undercover Investigations
Sarah Baeckler, Executive Director, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
Scott Heiser, Director, Criminal Justice Program, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Bonnie Robson, Deputy General Counsel, Litigation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception at The Cleaners (Ace Hotel)
Stephen Wells, Executive Director and CEO, Animal Legal Defense Fund
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Room 7: Do Animals Have it Better in Commonwealth Countries?
Mike Radford, OBE, Reader in Law, University of Aberdeen
Peter Sankoff, Professor of Law, University of Auckland
Room 8: A Paradigm Shift in Animal Testing
Dr. Daniel Krewski, Professor and Director, R. Samuel McLaughlin Center for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa
Dr. Paul Locke, Co-Director, Certificate Program in Humane Sciences and Toxicology Policy, JHSPH Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Toxicology
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Room 7: Persons or Property? The Ideal Status of Animals
David Favre, Professor of Law, Michigan State University, Detroit College of Law
Steve Wise, Author, and Founder/Director, Center for Expansion of Fundamental Rights
Room 8: Military and Homeland Security Exemptions from Laws Affecting Wildlife
Jay Johnson-Castro, Sr., Human Rights Activist, and Founder, Border Ambassadors
Zak Smith, Project Attorney, National Resources Defense Council
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch
2:00 – 3:45 p.m.
Room 7: Pandas in Peril: Advancing Animal Law in Asia
Paul Littlefair, Senior Manager, International Programmes, RSPCA
Amanda Whitfort, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
Room 8: Lessons Learned from the Vick Dogs
Alexis Fox, Law Student, Lewis & Clark Law School
Win Grant, Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia
Rebecca Huss, Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Room 7: Should the Animal Law Movement be Vegan?
Kathy Hessler, Director, Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School
Peter Sankoff, Professor of Law, University of Auckland
Room 8: World Religions & Animal Law
Lei’ohu Ryder, kahu
Paul Waldau, Director, Center for Public Policy and Animals at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Social Reception
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Banquet Dinner & Keynote Address
Robert Klonoff, Dean, Lewis & Clark Law School
Joyce Tischler, Founder, General Counsel, ALDF
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Room 7: Law Student Workshop
Kathy Hessler, Director, Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School
Matthew Liebman, Staff Attorney, ALDF
Kim McCoy, Executive Director, Sea Shepherd
Nicole Pallotta, Student Liaison, Animal Law Program, ALDF
Jami Pannell, Staff Attorney, Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School
Room 8: Animal Attorney Workshop
Claire Davis, Attorney, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Robert Fennessy, Attorney, Fennessy Law Offices
Laura Ireland, Partner, Gibbons & Ireland, LLP
Joan Schaffner, Associate Professor of Law, GW Law School